Jose Angel Toirac

by Jose Ángel Toirac (with Meira Marrero)

by Jose Ángel Toirac

by Jose Ángel Toirac

Artist's Statement

The first point of reference in my work, logically, is Cuba, but this doesn’t mean that the issues I take on are endemic to the island.

Day after day I go about archiving images from historical newspapers, magazines, and books that I later use as reference and work material. My creative process is to recycle all this material in relation to the idea that embodies each artwork.

My work is realist to the extent that I take as an object of study not reality but it’s image, the combination of visual habits that condition our comprehension and conception of the world. In this sense I accept Sartre’s maxim that what is important is not what we do, but that which we do with what has been done to us.